How to Present

A Presentation on Presenting, Presented in Presentation Form

Contents

1. The Presentation Perspective

2. Stories

3. Making Your Presentation

The Presentation Perspective

It’s not a presentation, it’s a story.

It’s not a speech, it’s a conversation.

Stories

Vonnegut’s Rules for Short Stories1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time

was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroacheseat the last few pages.

What Makes a

Good Story?

Making Your Presentation

Audience

Purpose

Respect People’s Time

Bribery Works

>Saving Space<

Size

FoNT

Color

Size

Symbols

(Symbols)

Transition Slides

USE THEM!

Readingis

Fundamental